Rita Moreno has been in the business for seven decades! As you can imagine, she was given all the labels a Hollywood girl can get. And with all that (sometimes unwanted) attention, it meant she had to figure out how to deal with it. “It never occurred to me not to withstand it,” she said. “I figured, and I was right, that that was how Hollywood was run and how it functioned. And I just went with the flow, as they say, not happily.”
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The EGOT performer (she has an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) revealed that it was that kind of attention that made her nearly take her life. Rita Moreno has been through it all (70 years will do it), and we’re here to bring light to her long-time story in the making.